Brandon’s 2010 West Beatys Butte Antelope 40 yards!
Early on in 2010 after Brandon drew his Archery Antelope Tag for West Beatys Butte with one preference point, he contacted me via email about possilbe Lope hunting sights in the unit. He and his dad were willing to spend some time to scout the area. I worked up some waypoints from the old days and since he had a Garmin Mapping GPS, it made it easy for him to utilize the waypoints.
I thought I would share the pictures from his hunt and a short story about the hunt. The big thing he was successful on this bow hunt and harvested a very good Antelope.
Bwana,
In the above attachment you will find the 2010’ Archery Antelope that I got which you helped me on with the GPS coordinates. You will also see a picture of a really nice Lope that we saw during our scouting trip we did 1 month prior to opening day.
Scouting Lope at waterhole!
I got the smaller lope at the same hole as we saw the larger lope at. There was an average of 20 to 40 lopes using the water hole we found. I shot my lope at 40 yards out of a Primos double bull blind while he was drinking water from the hole. Last year was extremely dry and any hole that had water had antelope around.
The water hole that I hunted which I found while scouting is coordinates:
Top Secret Spot
Thanks again for all the help you were. Your help with the GPS let me find the above water hole which brought me success. There were a lot of antelope around this water hole.
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I have attached a link that will give you some pictures to look at of bucks that I have taken pictures of from May 2008 until August 2010 for the most part. With the Blacktail deer I find that getting pictures is during this time frame.
Now as for hard horn bucks, one needs that staging area if they want to get pictures.
Now when the first full moon cycles in August it dries up a bit on finding the bigger bucks in the evening.
It seems the time will remain close on sighting the bucks and I find the bucks in the same area a great deal. There are few bucks that I never see again not matter how many times I work the area.
I thought I would do some updating on this post since I did write it in 2011. I am a firm believer in having the correct equipment and knowledge to keep legal while hunting. The other benefit of having the following tool, is that you might be able to find a landowner that let you hunt. Most farmers have great feeling about Lopes when they grow grasses…
Everyone should have @onxhunt in Mobile and or Garmin Colored GPS with the #onxhunt chip.
The tool know where you are at all times, boundaries are important to know…
In my time I have done a great deal of scouting and researching of Pronghorn or Antelope as most call this great animal from the past in Oregon and the rest of the Western States, where they roam in hunt-able numbers.
I have been fortunate to have harvest 2 Booners. Should have 2 more, but things happen. I have guide a few in the past and had them on Booners. One fellow that I was really upset was told me he could shoot out to a 1000 yards, no he did not shoot at 1000 yards, but has rested shot at 200 yards on the famous Rye Grass Buck. He missed him, hunt over and we parted ways…
2019 Thoughts: If you have time to scout even 1 day prior, get a game plan of glassing and glassing. Everyone should have at least an A, B and C plan. Glass from afar and if possible from a rise. Lopes are habit creatures and will work the same water holes and areas.
The best part of having a successful hunt is having experience with you. On my first Antelope hunt I was very fortunate to have my a Navy buddy guiding me in an area that I have never been in. My Navy buddy and I met when I was station at the Naval Security Activity in Imperial Beach, CA. I was a young enlisted guy and he came in as a LTJG from Portland, OR. I took him on his first duck hunt in the area of Imperial Beach and Tijuana. We later got reconnected when I got off active duty and joined the Naval Reserve. Rod retired as a CMDR from the Navy!
Grizzly Unit – Archery Lope
Cutting to the chase, my first Antelope hunt was a great learning experience for me. I became a quick learner and listen to everything Rod had to say and show me. He had a friend that worked for BLM in the area that knew the habits of the local Lopes. My First Lope Hunt
After that I became quite hooked on Antelope and spent the next 20 years plus scouting, chasing and free guiding on Antelope in Oregon and a little in Wyoming.
I have found that Antelope are very habit forming in their movement. I have seen the same buck or bucks working an area even after pressure. I know that most people do not realize that Antelope any other animal that marks their territory. One may not notice other animals doing so, but with Lopes the area that they live is a bit more arid and their marks show up. I always found it particular that they would mark a dirt road. I would catch them squatting in the middle of a road on scouting trips.
Many times I hear that a hunter hasn’t seen an Antelope at all on a scouting trip or hunting trip. I often ask them how much glassing had they done. Glassing you will find the the sage brush moves and the colors aren’t green. One has to have an eye when driving in or just looking for game. If what you think you see is not rock, dirt, junipers, or sage brush, it is usually some sort of game.
Spotted from 1/2 mile away during rifle season!
Over the many years of chasing Lopes, I have found the same buck in an area from year to year, which includes the same feeding areas. Years ago I chased the same buck for more than three (3) years in the same 5 X 5 square miles that I would locate him. I do believe that he lived to be a ripe old age.
Don’t ever overlook the fringe area of timber in an arid location, especially in Oregon. We have many units that the Antelope use the timber as would a Mule Deer buck. We have areas like the Maury, Gerber Res, Paulina and many more that the successful hunters have found big bucks in the timber.
If you want to find the big boys you need to take out the Coy Dogs!
My words are to those that hunt for Pronghorn is to carry a great pair of Bino’s, water, Mapping GPS (Garmin), a rifle cartridge that can carry the distance in wind, and maybe someone that can spot game.
Max's First Elk at 14 years old in the Grizzly Unit of Oregon
As I have said before many people come into our lives. In the outdoor world of hunting and fishing, I feel that we connect with the land and those that are part of the land…
For me there have been many Ranchers that I have come in contact in regards to hunting, especially in the state of Oregon…
In the 80’s. 90’s, 2000’s, much of my time was spent in Central Oregon mostly on the west side of the John Day River in pursuit of deer, elk and free ranging exotics. Through the years one might become infamous or notorious in relationship of the owners of the rimrock, sage and junipers. This past summer my son and I visited one of the ranchers that I have known through others, as well as how he knew me, yet we have never sat down and had a fireside chat… During the 4 or so hours we spent in a tent on his property, setting life straight and becoming friends of the mind, a common bond was made. Life is not easy for Ranchers, especially in the hostile land of the John Day River.
So the following was able to happen because of the gathering of the past summer!
Hi Frank-
“I found your website after sending you a private message on Ifish after you responded to my post about my son needing a place to hunt for cow elk in the North Grizzly Unit. If you have any contacts that would be great the season ends on November 30 and I am running out of options. Any help you could provide for a 14 year old kid would be greatly appreciated!” Jeff
Being able to come up with an area and the Rancher’s phone number, Jeff was able to get permission to hunt on this land.
Hey Frank-“Look at what we found! Ha-Ha….
Great hunting experience for my son we put in a long stalk in on Saturday morning after putting the elk to bed Friday night. We ended up walking the rim rock all the way to the end. We crawled to the edge where my son touched one off from the top clear down to the bottom. He hit her in the back leg with a stiff wind coming from left to right, very tough shot!
The Wind always blows in the area!
They took off running she was hurt yet still ran for an extended period. We caught up to her a couple of times but she ran off before he could settle in to shoot. I finally spotted her bed down in front of a tree at a high vantage point. This time we cut a limb off a tree after he missed twice so he could get a good shot. He connected while she was laying down right in the neck and died immediately… Took us all day to finally get her out with the use of a 4 wheeler but we were both still beat after coming in and out of that Canyon a couple of times! Finished skinning her out then cut her in half and headed for home about 6PM last night.”
Great experience!
Hey Frank-Happy Black Friday!
We ended up on Dave’s property….he really took to the “kid” as he called him…..Ha-Ha.
He let us use his 4 wheeler to haul that thing out which really helped the cause!
He also enjoyed the whiskey, salmon, beer and tuna that I brought to him as Thanks.
Hell of a memory for a 14 yr old kid, made it even more special that we were able to do it together….
Thanks again for the connection, Max is very thankful and wanted me to say Thanks as well….
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